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Picture of the Week: Rainbow Shine in Polymeric Materials
This effect can be used to control the internal stress on surfaces of transparent objects, which is required to monitor quality control of products and their technical state.
09.11.2020
Ancient Art & Science, or What Killed the Medusa
ITMO professor Sergei Stafeev recently delivered a lecture in which he spoke about how Greek philosophers succeeded in discovering many of the laws of optics, how these discoveries were reflected in art, and what’s similar about the story of Medusa and one of the Harry Potter books. ITMO.NEWS put down the main ideas.
02.11.2020
Picture of the Week: An Atomic Force Microscope Celebrates Halloween
The picture shows the probe of an atomic force microscope seen through a secondary optical microscope.
30.10.2020
ITMO Scientists Demonstrate Record-Breaking Light Coupling into Optical Fiber at Large Incidence Angles
The invention opens up new opportunities in the field of medicine, including endoscopy and laparoscopy, quantum technologies, and fiber-optic sensors. The concept proposed by the scientists got on the front cover of the October issue of ACS Photonics.
27.10.2020
Student Science Open Day: Your Guide to ITMO Master’s Programs and Opportunities
ITMO University has recently hosted Student Science Open Day to let first-year Master’s students get acquainted with all the opportunities the university provides. ITMO.NEWS sums up all the main points of the event in this guide that will help you develop in science, entrepreneurship, and teaching.
23.10.2020
Picture of the Week: A Holographic Image in the Augmented Reality System
Thanks to a special technology, the image can be seen both up close and from afar – its levels of brightness and contrast remain equally high.
09.10.2020
In a Nutshell: Genome Editing and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
This year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to researchers who developed the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing method. ITMO.NEWS and Pavel Dobrynin, a researcher and engineer at ITMO’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty, explain the essence of the winners’ research and what makes it a truly world-changing discovery.
08.10.2020
Picture of the Week: Hematite Crystals in Glass
Once you put particles of hematite in glass, it becomes attracted to magnets, remaining transparent at the same time.
02.10.2020
Media Research Group’s Aleksandr Farseev On Advertising Algorithms and Social Network Monopolies
During the past three years, a team of researchers from the Machine Learning Lab has been studying artificial intelligence in the field of social network analysis. Aleksandr Farseev, the head of the team, discussed tasks they worked on and the results they achieved.
01.10.2020
New Historical Exposition Set to Open in Russia’s Oldest Science City
The Pavlov Institute of Physiology in St. Petersburg plans to renew and expand its historical exposition dedicated to the life and work of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov in Koltushi. ITMO University professor Irina Aktuganova will take the lead in the creation of the renovated museum.
01.10.2020